Fulbright - Fulbright Inquiry Project and PVRHS District

PVHS Wellness

Pascack Valley Regional High School District recognizes the increasing need for interventions and resources to address the social/emotional needs of our student population.

Our Minds Matter is a student run organization that promotes mental health and wellness for the entire Pascack Valley community. The goals of the club are awareness, advocacy and education in a stigma-free environment.

Retrieved from: https://valley.pascack.org/administration/p_v_wellness/wellness_center

Fulbright's answer to our wellness initiative: Innovation, Inquiry, and Individuality

A multidisciplinary global project will bring students from Pascack Valley Regional High School district and a school district from Finland together through shared collaboration to initiate social justice action strongly related to a social/emotional issue of our students.

Identity and Belonging: How Struggle Helps Define Who We Are

This exhilarating project will involve a global collaboration between a school in Helsinki, Finland, and PVRHSD, and will challenge students to self-reflect and to use 21st-century skills of collaboration and critical thinking. PVRHSD students from different departments - Music, English (Creative Writing, Public Speaking), Video Production, Art, and Social Studies/ Current World Problems-will work together on this exciting project.

Students' task will be: to collaborate with Finnish students to create an original musical about identity and belonging, immigration, race, gender, and struggle that helps define who we are. This project may echo some of the work done by Harvard Project Zero which places focus on understanding learning in and through the arts.

The original musical collaboratively developed by Finnish and our students during the inquiry project will be performed in different communities to raise the awareness of self-identity and belonging and help initiate positive social change.